<p>General Things
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: East Indian (international)
Country: India (but living in Singapore for 16 years)
Current Grade: Senior Year (in singapore, schools run from Jan-Dec)
Financial Aid: Not applying for any sort of FA</p>
<p>Grades
GPA: 3.1 (Sharp rising trend)
-Very tough international magnet school specializing in Math & Science</p>
<p>SAT Reasoning Test
SAT Critical Reading - 770
SAT Math - 800
SAT Writing 800
SAT Composite (M+CR) 1570
SAT Composite (M+CR+W) 2370</p>
<p>SAT Subject Tests
SAT Math Level 2 - 800
SAT Physics - 790
SAT Chemistry 780
SAT Biology M - 770</p>
<p>AP Tests
AP Calculus AB 5
AP Chemistry 5
AP Physics B 5
AP Biology 5
AP Calculus BC 5
AP Statistics 5</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities
- Captain: Debate Team
- President: Creative Writing Circle
- Editor: School Yearbook
- Editor: School Newsletter (we don't publish too actively tho)
- Editor: Official Newsletter of Singapore Int'l Mathematics Competition
- Captain: Scrabble Team (placed 3rd nationally in 2007, several individual awards at national level too)
- Head Delegate: Model UN
- Tennis Team
- National Education Ambassador
- 300ish Community Service Hours
- Creative Arts Program (very selective program for writers and poets)
- Research on atomic spectroscopy
- Research on oxygen's behavior on palladium and applications in fuel cells
- Interned at a renowned museum of biodiversity research
- 2 Commendatory Awards @ Commonwealth Int'l Essay Writing Competition
- Gold (Drama) @ Singapore Youth Festival
- Best Delegate @ Singapore Model United Nations 2009
- Best Delegate @ WE International Model United Nations 2009</p>
<p>It seems like your school is difficult but Im not too sure how michigan will take it, though it seems you are super smart and super talented. I can’t give an accurate chance here. Sorry.</p>
<p>Your scores are similar to my son’s and he is a first year double major student at UMich in Engineering and Performing Arts. I would think you would have a very good chance. You never know until you apply.
Good Luck :)</p>
<p>Id think you would have a good chance to get in…The only thing you should be worried about is that the international pool is probably much stronger than the regular pool, but you have amazing test scores</p>
<p>While GPA is more important than test scores, GPA and class rank are equally important.
A 3.0 can be competitive if top students at your school have 2.9s and 3.0s. It is much less competitive if top students have 3.8s and above. If you can ask your counselor for this information, that would be very useful.</p>
<p>Your particular app, srrinath, is very hard to predict, so if you can share rank we can help, but if your school doesn’t rank then we’ll all have to see what transpires. As a cookie, I don’t really want to crumble ;)</p>
<p>IMO, if you have great test scores and a low GPA, it shows the admissions officer that you’re smart but lazy/don’t care about school work (no offense at all to the OP), which is worse than working hard maintaining a great GPA, and bombing a 3 hour test. They care more about your work over 3 years than that over 3 hours.</p>
<p>That’s why class rank (or just a HS profile if your school doesn’t rank, to show the difficulty of your school to the admissions person) is especially important for the OP. It’ll show that his school is really tough, and that his GPA isn’t bad.</p>
<p>Personally I disagree with saying that GPA matters more. All the high schools in the country have varying standards and systems for calculating it. My 4.23 weighted gpa isn’t as good as some other people’s 4.23 weighted gpas around the country I’m sure. At least the tests are universal. It’s also bad to assume that people with lower GPAs didn’t work hard without knowing their circumstances (family life, psychological issues, sports, responsibilities, etc.).<br>
Yosup-In the reverse case of your example, it would be someone with a perfect gpa and low test scores. That either means they suck at major tests or they simply can’t put everything together on a cumulative test, and apply what they know. I’d rather have someone who could think than a drone that just spits out whatever they hear in class and slops it down on a weekly exam. My AP Bio teacher gave me a C for the year (knocking my grade down from a B), basically saying I scored too low on the mock AP exam (2). I got a 4 on the real thing, and I don’t see why the colleges can’t value those too. Just like my 3 on AP US when I got an A in the class (maybe my A was inflated?).</p>
<p>That’s why U of M and most other colleges have their own way of calculating GPA…they also consider your class rigor along with your GPA. </p>
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<p>Colleges know about your issues, and consider them too. The same thing can be said about test scores (people with lots of time study more and do better). Anyways, I was talking about just GPA and test scores without any other factors.</p>
<p>I guess at really top schools like ivies, test scores probably matter more because almost everyone who applies has a really high GPA. At U of M, I’m pretty sure GPA > test scores.</p>
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<p>Well if the person who could think had a low GPA and high test score, it probably means they’re not motivated enough to keep their grades up in school. This, IMO, is worse than a person who tries hard and does well in school, but sucks at major tests.</p>
<p>I guess at really top ivies and other top schools, everyone who applies has a high GPA so test scores are more important. At U of M, I’m pretty sure GPA > test scores.</p>
<p>I think there needs to be a good balance between GPA and test scores.</p>
<p>I mean, look at srrinaths 3.1 GPA…If he went to my school I guarantee he would have at least a 3.8+…But looking at his amazing test scores, all of the sudden the 3.1 starts looking better</p>